It doesn't need constant simulation of other galaxies, it can just be a random event, once it starts, another galaxy appears and almost immediately begins collision. Maybe before this happens one of the galaxy effects can get bigger, but no actual simulation until impact.

Seeing as how this thread never got anserwed, I guess thats a green light. What The Uteen said is brilliant

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[quote]Maybe if you go far enough, you start seeing faint green lines making cubes outlines (imagine blackpaper with vertical and horizontal lines, making lots of squares on the paper. The same thing, but 3d with cubes), and as you progress into them, they get brighter. After going through 10 or more cubes of the big cube wall, the green reaches its most distinct. Now the black of space is begining to turn green, too. Your engine stutters, and stops. You float onwards. Eventually the whole of space becomes green, a cyber (computer) green

It shows the true scale of things, imagine if humans became advanced enough to somehow reach the edge of [insert impossible destination here], then slowly the [insert previous impossible destination here] turns to a cybernetc environment. Very existence turns out to be a higher existence's "computer simulation," but the real kicker is that people evolved so much that they can't possible become more advanced (your thrive creatures won't learn to come into the real world(or what we perseve as our real world)).

[quote="Gorbachof"]Seeing as how this thread never got anserwed, I guess thats a green light. What The Uteen said is brilliant

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Maybe if you go far enough, you start seeing faint green lines making cubes outlines (imagine blackpaper with vertical and horizontal lines, making lots of squares on the paper. The same thing, but 3d with cubes), and as you progress into them, they get brighter. After going through 10 or more cubes of the big cube wall, the green reaches its most distinct. Now the black of space is begining to turn green, too. Your engine stutters, and stops. You float onwards. Eventually the whole of space becomes green, a cyber (computer) green

It shows the true scale of things, imagine if humans became advanced enough to somehow reach the edge of [insert impossible destination here], then slowly the [insert previous impossible destination here] turns to a cybernetc environment. Very existence turns out to be a higher existence's "computer simulation," but the real kicker is that people evolved so much that they can't possible become more advanced (your thrive creatures won't learn to come into the real world(or what we perseve as our real world)).So basically a sort of Matrix-style "Your world is only a simulation" type thing? Sounds like it would be rather humorous and it makes a convenient way to keep everyone in one galaxy.

I guess you could say Matirx style, but I meant it to be by no means humorus. For all we know our universe, and everything we percieve to be reality, could be a watered down realty of somthing more. If you take the Sims games (1,2,3), you wouldn't call them/it a universe, but it is. They try to servive, they are (somewhat) autonomious, and they are. To us though, they are simple, a mere computer program, but what if thats us?